Overview

Nvidia logo Nvidia RTX A2000

The Nvidia RTX A2000 is a workstation GPU on the Ampere architecture, released Q3 2021, with 12 GB GDDR6 and 288 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Budget Workstation

Nvidia logo Nvidia A5000

The Nvidia A5000 is a workstation GPU on the Ampere architecture, released Q2 2021, with 24 GB GDDR6 and 768 GB/s memory bandwidth.

Mid-Range Workstation

Memory per GPU

2x more on A5000
Nvidia logo RTX A2000
12 GB GDDR6
Nvidia logo A5000
24 GB GDDR6

Memory bandwidth

2.7x higher on A5000
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288 GB/s
Nvidia logo A5000
768 GB/s

GPU interconnect

Nvidia logo RTX A2000
PCIe only
Nvidia logo A5000
NVLink 112 GB/s

Peak performance (FP16)

3.5x higher on A5000
Nvidia logo RTX A2000
31.9 TFLOPS
Nvidia logo A5000
111.1 TFLOPS

Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

FP16 per watt

1.1x higher on A5000
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0.46 TFLOPS/W
Nvidia logo A5000
0.48 TFLOPS/W

Board power

3.3x higher on A5000
Nvidia logo RTX A2000
70 W
Nvidia logo A5000
230 W

Precision support

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FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8
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FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

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Ampere
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Ampere

Released

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Q3 2021
Nvidia logo A5000
Q2 2021

Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.

Source: RTX A2000 datasheet and A5000 datasheet.

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

3.9x higher on A5000
Nvidia logo RTX A2000
$0.05 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo A5000
$0.20 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

3x higher on A5000
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$0.42 / GPU / hr
Nvidia logo A5000
$1.24 / GPU / hr

Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Spot floor

Nvidia logo RTX A2000
No spot listings
Nvidia logo A5000
$0.09 / GPU / hr

Providers listing it

10 more on A5000
Nvidia logo RTX A2000
3
Nvidia logo A5000
13

Price, last 90 days

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Too few providers pricing it
Nvidia logo A5000
+19%

Change in the market-wide median, which moves when providers reprice and when cheaper or more expensive listings enter the market.

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Offers and availability

How this list works

Order

Each provider appears once per GPU. We pick the one configuration that speaks for that provider, and rank on it in this order:

  1. Availability: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. A price you can act on outranks a cheaper one you cannot.
  2. Billing type: on-demand first, then reserved, then spot, then quote-only. On-demand leads because it is the only rate you can hold without committing to anything.
  3. Price: the lowest per-GPU hourly rate the provider lists, converted to USD.

The configuration we pick is chosen the same way, availability before billing before price. The rest of that provider's configurations are on the GPU's own page.

Ties sort alphabetically. Reserved rates are not separated by term length, so a three-year commitment can sit above a one-month one: the label beneath each price says which you are looking at. Providers who publish no rate are listed last within their group.

Transparency and funding

  • Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
  • Affiliates: Affiliate links are marked. We may earn a commission if you click them, but commissions never affect the order.
  • Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.

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Our data for Nvidia RTX A2000 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia A5000 on Sept. 7, 2026.